On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:12:10PM -0400, Alex @ Avantel Systems wrote: > Although my bios recognized my scsi disks, my Fedora install needed me to load > drivers manually otherwise the scsi disks were not found. After that, the > install completes without further problems. I asked that grub be used and > installed on the mbr. > > After reboot I get "Operating System not found". > > Using linux rescue (again with noprobe so I can load the driver), I tried > rewriting to the boot sector and although grub claims success, the results > are the same - can't boot. I've tried copying stage 1&2 to a floppy to make > it do the boot but I get a grub prompt after stage 2 is loaded. > > The driver I needed during install is listed in modprobe.conf (aic7xxx) and I > have tried re-creating initrd in various configurations (--preload=aic7xxx, > --omit-raid-modules, etc) all with the same result - can't boot > > I'm looking for ideas and suggestions . . . . > I would have used --with=aic7xxx in mkinitrd . That has always worked for me. And of course aic7xxx must be loaded by modprobe.conf. -- ======================================================================= "A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
